A fundraising collaboration providing vital support to refugees and displaced people worldwideHermanos Lejanos (2024)
Edition of 75
9 Colour Screenprint and 2 Colour Lithograph with Hand-applied Paint and Oil Stick on Somerset Satin White 300gsm. Produced by Counter Studio, Margate.
60 x 76 cm (23.6 x 29.9 in)
Signed, numbered and dated by the artist
A third of profits from the sale of each print will benefit Choose Love.
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Studio Lenca (b.1986 La Paz, El Salvador) is based at TKE Studios, Margate, UK. Studio Lenca is the working name of artist Jose Campos – ‘Studio’ referring to a space for experimentation and making; ‘Lenca’ referring to the Mesoamerican indigenous people of southwestern Honduras and eastern El Salvador. Studio Lenca was born in La Paz, El Salvador. He works with performance, video, painting and sculpture.
Studio Lenca received an MA from Goldsmiths University of London and his work is included in the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Parrish Art Museum in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include the Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, UK, Kates-Ferri Projects, New York, Parrish Art Museum, New York, Fina Cortesin, Spain, and Tang Contemporary in Bangkok.
Studio Lenca, along with six other international artists, were asked to create a print for Choose Love. A third of the profits from the sale of each print will be benefit Choose Love – providing vital support to refugees and displaced people worldwide.
Studio Lenca is focused on ideas surrounding difference, knowledge and visibility. He works with performance, video, painting and sculpture. His process often starts with personal memories and is underpinned by social activism and different forms of praxis. Studio Lenca's works tell an autobiographical story which navigates borders and identities destroyed, redrawn and erased through colonisation and war. The characters in his works depict the artist and his community proudly wearing hats and vibrant colours in noble defiance of the ‘western’ discourse around migration.
Studio Lenca’s limited edition print, which is an edition of 125, is titled Hermanos Lejanos (2024), in English – far away brother, which is how Salvadorans refer to their diasporic communities. The figures are covered in platanos, or plantains because when the artist misses home, food helps him to reconnect. The figures wear suits covered in plantains, which act as a declaration of where they’re from and who they are. The two figures are together and apart at the same time, a feeling Hermanos Lejanos know so well. These figures always wear large hats and brightly coloured clothing, refusing to be ignored, invisible or undocumented.
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